Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes, Heart Quotes, Path Quotes

On the path of actions, great heart is the chief recommendation; on that works, a great head.

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And yet, just as our body would burst asunder if the pressure of the atmosphere were removed from it, so would the arrogance of men expand, if not to the point of bursting then to that of the most unbridled folly, indeed madness, if the pressure of want, toil, calamity and frustration were removed from their life. One can even say that we require at all times a certain quantity of care or sorrow or want, as a ship requires ballast, in order to keep on a straight course.

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If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him.

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The world is my representation

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For, as you know, religions are like glow-worms; they shine only when it is dark.

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If God made this world, then i would not want to be the God. It is full of misery and distress that it breaks my heart.

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To become indignant at [people's] conduct is as foolish as to be angry with a stone because it rolls into your path. And with many people the wisest thing you can do, is to resolve to make use of those whom you cannot alter.

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Hatred is an affair of the heart; contempt that of the head.

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A man shows his character just in the way in which he deals with trifles, for then he is off his guard.

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Any foolish boy can stamp on a beetle, but all the professors in the world cannot make a beetle.

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I have long held the opinion that the amount of noise that anyone can bear undisturbed stands in inverse proportion to his mental capacity and therefore be regarded as a pretty fair measure of it.

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If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.

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A man becomes a philosopher by reason of a certain perplexity, from which he seeks to free himself.

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It is in the treatment of trifles that a person shows what they are.

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Will without intellect is the most vulgar and common thing in the world, possessed by every blockhead, who, in the gratification of his passions, shows the stuff of which he is made.

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Thus, the task is not so much to see what no one yet has seen, but to think what nobody yet has thought about that which everybody sees.

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Talent works for money and fame; the motive which moves genius to productivity is, on the other hand, less easy to determine.

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The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust.

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A man of business will often deceive you without the slightest scruple, but he will absolutely refuse to commit a theft.

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Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.

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